{"id":2721,"date":"2016-11-22T12:23:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2017-02-10T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T12:41:02","slug":"liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIVERPOOL legend John Aldridge believes Jurgen Klopp has a big plus to take from the disappointing 0-0 draw in the Premier League at Southampton. Make that two plus points.<\/p>\n<p>For the clean sheet proved that the rock-solid partnership is flourishing between Joel Matip and Dejan Lovren at the heart of the Reds defence.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp\u2019s outfit went ito the encounter at the top of the pile but were left frustrated after creating a clutch of chances but failing to get the breakthrough goal and secure a victory and the three points.<\/p>\n<p>Lovren faced a barrage of animosity from Saints fans at St Mary\u2019s on his return to the club that sold him to the Anfield giants. But he answered his critics with a solid display alongside his partner at the back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And Aldridge said:<\/strong><em> &#8220;Joel Matip has been excellent since he came to Liverpool and he was very good again on Saturday&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He just calms things down and is having a big influence. On the ball he is brilliant and in the air he is excellent. He and Lovren have got a good partnership going&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Dejan got a hostile reception on Saturday but he ignored it. He played really well and that\u2019s what you want to see. He has nothing to prove&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Teams do what Southampton tried all the time and that is that they used a defensive set up and tried to hit us on the break and take all three points. But we got a clean sheet and I thought we defended really well&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool bid to get back in the winning groove on Saturday when Sunderland visit Anfield for a Premier League encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Cats are second from bottom of the table but have won their past two matches under former Everton manager David Moyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIVERPOOL legend John Aldridge believes Jurgen Klopp has a big plus to take from the disappointing 0-0 draw in the Premier League at Southampton. Make that two plus points. For the clean sheet proved that the rock-solid partnership is flourishing between Joel Matip and Dejan Lovren at the heart of the Reds defence. Klopp\u2019s outfit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[143,146,242,307,145,270,306],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LIVERPOOL legend John Aldridge believes Jurgen Klopp has a big plus to take from the disappointing 0-0 draw in the Premier League at Southampton. Make that two plus points. For the clean sheet proved that the rock-solid partnership is flourishing between Joel Matip and Dejan Lovren at the heart of the Reds defence. Klopp\u2019s outfit [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Friends Of Liverpool\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-22T12:23:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-02-10T12:41:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Carl Eldridge\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carl Eldridge\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Carl Eldridge\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d2162dfd3d5f7ef5e3580d1e2603fa30\"},\"headline\":\"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-22T12:23:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-10T12:41:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/\"},\"wordCount\":315,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Anfield\",\"Dejan Lovren\",\"Joel Matip\",\"John Aldridge\",\"Jurgen Klopp\",\"Liverpool FC\",\"Southampton FC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Liverpool FC News\",\"Premier League\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/\",\"name\":\"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-22T12:23:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-10T12:41:02+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg\",\"width\":620,\"height\":330},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/\",\"name\":\"Friends Of Liverpool\",\"description\":\"Liverpool FC News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Friends Of Liverpool\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-friends_of_liverpool_logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-friends_of_liverpool_logo.png\",\"width\":869,\"height\":90,\"caption\":\"Friends Of Liverpool\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d2162dfd3d5f7ef5e3580d1e2603fa30\",\"name\":\"Carl Eldridge\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/144a51118b01b8f58aeaeea0671d55a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/144a51118b01b8f58aeaeea0671d55a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Carl Eldridge\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/author\/carl-eldridge\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard","og_description":"LIVERPOOL legend John Aldridge believes Jurgen Klopp has a big plus to take from the disappointing 0-0 draw in the Premier League at Southampton. Make that two plus points. For the clean sheet proved that the rock-solid partnership is flourishing between Joel Matip and Dejan Lovren at the heart of the Reds defence. Klopp\u2019s outfit [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/","og_site_name":"Friends Of Liverpool","article_published_time":"2016-11-22T12:23:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-02-10T12:41:02+00:00","og_image":[{"width":620,"height":330,"url":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Carl Eldridge","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Carl Eldridge","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/"},"author":{"name":"Carl Eldridge","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d2162dfd3d5f7ef5e3580d1e2603fa30"},"headline":"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard","datePublished":"2016-11-22T12:23:48+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-10T12:41:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/"},"wordCount":315,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg","keywords":["Anfield","Dejan Lovren","Joel Matip","John Aldridge","Jurgen Klopp","Liverpool FC","Southampton FC"],"articleSection":["Liverpool FC News","Premier League"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/","url":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/","name":"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg","datePublished":"2016-11-22T12:23:48+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-10T12:41:02+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-aldridge.jpeg","width":620,"height":330},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/2016\/11\/liverpool-legend-aldridge-backs-matip-lovren-partnership-heart-liverpool-rearguard\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Liverpool legend Aldridge backs Matip and Lovren partnership at heart of Liverpool rearguard"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/","name":"Friends Of Liverpool","description":"Liverpool FC News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#organization","name":"Friends Of Liverpool","url":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-friends_of_liverpool_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cropped-friends_of_liverpool_logo.png","width":869,"height":90,"caption":"Friends Of Liverpool"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d2162dfd3d5f7ef5e3580d1e2603fa30","name":"Carl Eldridge","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/144a51118b01b8f58aeaeea0671d55a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/144a51118b01b8f58aeaeea0671d55a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Carl Eldridge"},"url":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/author\/carl-eldridge\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsofliverpool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}